You’d be pretty happy if you had one of the latest Ferrari 458s, but maybe not quite so happy if you were one of the 9 owners whose cars had caught fire…
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Ferrari issues worldwide recall of 458 Italia due to fires
Posted 1 day ago in Italian, Miscellaneous News, Supercar News
Brabus reveals their take on the Mercedes SLS AMG
Posted 1 day ago in Italian, Supercar News
All the small tuners have revealed their SLS AMGs already, but now Brabus; Mercedes’ unofficial tuning house, have revealed their tuned example. And it’s a beauty…
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New Images of Bugatti Veyron Supersport released
Posted 2 weeks ago in Italian, Supercar News
Not content with capturing the world record for the fastest production car, Bugatti have now revealed the production veresion of that record-breaking car – the Supersport…
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Trashed Ferrari Enzo reborn as Salt-Flat racer
Posted 2 weeks ago in American, Italian, Miscellaneous News, Supercar News
If you’re a billionaire and you destroy your Ferrari Enzo on a road-rally, do you just throw in the towel? Not in this case…
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Mansory offend again with another Hypercar horror!
Posted 4 weeks ago in German, Italian, Supercar News
Yes that’s right. Only a matter of weeks have passed since Mansory’s last press release assaulting our eyes. Yet here they are again, this time with a Veyron based monstrosity…
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Pagani Zonda HH revealed, and other glorious one-off Hypercars…
Posted 4 weeks ago in American, German, Italian, Other, Supercar News
If you’re a wealthy car enthusiast, it just isn’t the done thing anymore to buy an off-the-shelf hypercar. Nowadays you have to get a one-off comissioned by your favourite manufacturer for true exclusivity and bragging rights…
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Ferrari reveal the 458 Challenge racer
Posted 4 weeks ago in Italian, Miscellaneous News, Supercar News
Hot on the heels of the launch of the 458 Italia, Ferrari have revealed their new racer based on the road car. Stunning looks are a guarantee, but will it be as good as it looks?
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First Ferrari, then Pagani break Nurburgring lap record
Posted 1 month ago in Italian, Supercar News
Recently Ferrari amazed everyone by announcing that their 599XX had broken the lap record for the Nurburgring. Then Pagani announce they’ve smashed the previous Italians just a few weeks later….
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Comparison Test – Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster Vs Maserati GranCabrio
Posted 1 month ago in British, Italian, Miscellaneous News, Supercar News
When you enter our Supercar competition, you could choose between the soft-top V8 offerings from Aston Martin or Maserati. Here we help you make the decision…
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BOTB Road test – Pagani Zonda F Roadster
Posted 1 month ago in Italian, Supercar News
Few cars are as exclusive, alluring or plain crazy as the offerings from Pagani. Here Nick Hall gets a rare chance to drive one in the UK…
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Bugatti smashes World Land Speed Record with new 1183bhp Veyron Supersport
Posted 2 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
987bhp and 258mph not enough for you? Well luckily Bugatti have the answer…
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BOTB Review – Lamborghini LP560/4 Spyder
Posted 2 months ago in Italian, Miscellaneous News, Supercar News
Tim Oldland tests the latest Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder on some of Yorkshire’s best roads…
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Let battle commence…
Posted 2 months ago in British, Italian, Supercar News
2011 sees the age-old Formula 1 battle make its way onto the streets with the launch of brand new McLaren and Ferrari supercars…
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The Italian V12 lives on…
Posted 3 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
For years, the pinnacle of Italian supercar power was the V12. But with the world downsizing engines and adding forced induction, and more stringent emission regulations strangling these cars, its future looked bleak.
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The return of the proper Lamborghini…
Posted 4 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
When the Gallardo was launched in 2003 many thought Lamborghini had gone soft. It was easy to drive, looked very Germanic in its details, was comfortable, had great ergonomics, and even had normal doors. Sure it still had 500bhp, and sounded incredible, but the literati thought it wasn’t outrageous enough to be a true Lambo.
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225mph! The Greatest Murcielago
Posted 4 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
This is the all-new 225mph replacement for the Lamborghini Murcielago, which will go on sale early next year with a price tag of over £300k and the clear goal of putting Lamborghini back at the top of the supercar tree.
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Lamborghini LP560-4
Posted 6 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
With the new Gallardo LP560-4, Lamborghini once again sets a higher standard for super sports cars. With its new engine, permanent four-wheel drive transmission and new suspension, it delivers clearly improved performance and dynamics. In parallel, its innovative design takes the classic lines unique to the Lamborghini brand one step further. Powerful elegance has never been so defined before.
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Felipe Massa at the wheel of the 700bhp Ferrari 599XX
Posted 6 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
Massa drove the car at Valencia. After several laps he said: “I really enjoyed testing this car, I think it’s extremely powerful and has an exceptional stability. Considering that it has been planned for the track it’s really easy to drive.”
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Gemballa MIG-U1: Weapons-Grade Luxury
Posted 7 months ago in German, Italian, Supercar News
The Gemballa team is on a hot streak, but with a different player this time: Ferrari. The German company known for tuning Porsches for over almost 30 years has crossed the border into Italy, with fantastic results. This is the Ferrari Enzo-based Gemballa MIG-U1.
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Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione: a legendary name for a unique car
Posted 7 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
The definitive version of the gorgeous exclusive Alfa 8C Competizione, Gran Turismo car that is to be produced in a limited edition makes its debut in Paris. The car, designed by Alfa Romeo, is directly derived from the concept car that aroused such admiration at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show.
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1966 – 1968 Lamborghini 400GT
Posted 7 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
When Ferruccio Lamborghini moved from tractors to cars, he decided to make a car better than any Ferrari. His biggest problem with the Ferrari models was the lack of quality. So, with the best team possible – made of people like Gian Paolo Dallara and Gitto Bizzarrini – he started to design cars.
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Bugatti Renaissance Design Concept 2010
Posted 7 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
We’re not sure when or if Bugatti will present a direct successor to the 1,001-horsepower Veyron, but if the VW Group-owned company does, John Mark Vicente would like to believe that it may look something like this – the Bugatti Renaissance.
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Italian Police Crash Lamborghini Supercar
Posted 9 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
In a blow to the pride taken by Italy’s police in their two most glamorous patrol vehicles, one of the cars was clipped by a Seat as the more modest car was edging its way out of a petrol station near Cremona. The impact sent the exotic police car flying into a line of parked cars.
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Lamborghini Reventon Roadster
Posted 10 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
Lamborghini presents the ultimate driving machine among open-top two-seaters – the Reventón Roadster is a sports car of breathtaking fascination, menacing power and uncompromising performance. The 6.5 liter twelve-cylinder generates 493 kW (670 PS), catapulting the Roadster from 0 to 100 Km/h (0 to 62 mph) in 3.4 seconds and onwards to a top speed of 330 KM/h (205 mph). The open-top Reventón is not only one of the fastest, but also one of the most exclusive cars in the world – Lamborghini has limited the series.
Read onBugatti 16 C Galibier Concept
Posted 10 months ago in Italian, Supercar News
Art – Forme – Technique: those are the brand values to which Ettore Bugatti and his son Jean oriented themselves in order to develop even more powerful engines and even more noble body designs for each new model, which were without equal in quality, handling, speed and elegance. In the process, they experimented again and again without compromise with new materials; thus was Bugatti one of the first manufacturers to use aluminium parts for bodies, engine blocks and wheels.
Read onJuly Supercar Winner
Posted 2 weeks ago
Another month, another Best of the Best customer gets the call telling them they’re the winner. July’s lucky recipient was Mr Keith Allen!
Read onJuly Sportscar Winner
Posted 2 weeks ago
The excited winner of our July Supercar competition, Alun Rowe, was lost for words when he received the call telling him he’d won!
Read onMay 2010 Supercar Winner
Posted 2 months ago
Mr. Prakton Mal from Norway was the winner of our May Supercar Competition. Unsurprisingly, it took a while for the excellent news to sink in!
Read onApril 2010 Supercar Winner
Posted 2 months ago
Mr. Keith Mark was the winner our April Supercar Competition. Mr. Mark, from Trinidad and Tobago, was genuinely ‘lost for words’ upon receiving the winning call from Will.
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March 2010 Supercar Winner
Posted 4 months ago
Mr. Reza Khaleghi was the winner our March Supercar Competition. Reza, from the United Kingdom, played our competition at Gatwick Airport and was genuniely ‘lost for words’ upon receiving the winning call from Will.
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